Loco sheds and other railway buildings...
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KateV8 said:
P5BNij said:
Great bit of nostalgia there
It's just reminded me that one of the lads I work with 'rescued' the operating panel from Tinsley Yard Hump 'box.
Some of the boxes I've frequented for one reason or another over the years, usually to fill up the enamel brew can....
Does anyone remember steam lances being used on locos to clear snow from pointwork....? This is Padd in January '79....
Would the 'rescuing' of the panel from Tinsley Yard hump box have been around 2003? If so I may have been there when he came walking back to the sidings with his treasure. EWS shunters course. It's just reminded me that one of the lads I work with 'rescued' the operating panel from Tinsley Yard Hump 'box.
Some of the boxes I've frequented for one reason or another over the years, usually to fill up the enamel brew can....
Does anyone remember steam lances being used on locos to clear snow from pointwork....? This is Padd in January '79....
P5BNij said:
Yes, spot on, he and his older brother are both shutters at Leicester (Coalville Division!). I don’t know if anyone remembers this but back in the ‘80s there were stories of locos mysteriously being taken for joyrides on the Coalville branch during the night, well - I couldn’t possibly comment on the slight possibility of any connection between the two brothers and said purloining of locos taking unauthorised jaunts down the line to Barron Hill and back again
That was a great time for me on the shunters course. Most of the time we were at Carr Loco at Donny but we moved to what was left of Tinsley Yard for some practical work. I stayed at EWS for a couple of years then moved to Virgin on a driver's course. Happy times at EWS though, shunting freight around Liverpool.
That was a great time for me on the shunters course. Most of the time we were at Carr Loco at Donny but we moved to what was left of Tinsley Yard for some practical work. I stayed at EWS for a couple of years then moved to Virgin on a driver's course. Happy times at EWS though, shunting freight around Liverpool.
I did some of my class 66 training at Carr Loco, nice bunch up there. We also went to Healey Mills and Immingham, all places I hadn’t seen for about twenty years at the time with lots of changes in between. On one of the days at Donny there were no spare 66s about so we took a 60 for a ride out, at Rotherham some of the local scrotes showered us with stones from a bridge and ran off.
As I type this I’m sitting at Luton Crescent Road yard while my train is being unloaded, wouldn’t it be nice if a Peak flew by on the Up Fast to St.Pancras....?
Edit - I’ve been here barely two hours and had four cups of tea
As I type this I’m sitting at Luton Crescent Road yard while my train is being unloaded, wouldn’t it be nice if a Peak flew by on the Up Fast to St.Pancras....?
Edit - I’ve been here barely two hours and had four cups of tea
P5BNij said:
I did some of my class 66 training at Carr Loco, nice bunch up there. We also went to Healey Mills and Immingham, all places I hadn’t seen for about twenty years at the time with lots of changes in between. On one of the days at Donny there were no spare 66s about so we took a 60 for a ride out, at Rotherham some of the local scrotes showered us with stones from a bridge and ran off.
As I type this I’m sitting at Luton Crescent Road yard while my train is being unloaded, wouldn’t it be nice if a Peak flew by on the Up Fast to St.Pancras....?
Edit - I’ve been here barely two hours and had four cups of tea
Four cups of tea in two hours is why I couldn't stay on the freight. My bladder isn't big enough 😂😂As I type this I’m sitting at Luton Crescent Road yard while my train is being unloaded, wouldn’t it be nice if a Peak flew by on the Up Fast to St.Pancras....?
Edit - I’ve been here barely two hours and had four cups of tea
Yertis said:
Eugh – a 'Crompton'. I hate those things. Everything that's wrong with diesel locomotion in one boring box.
When I was a kid, 33s were the only diesel loco that we got on the SE region, and even then you had to go looking for them, e.g at Hither Green. So they were always quite exciting for us.Flying Phil said:
We had a nice Midland Goods shed at the side of Market Harborough Station in 2017
Then it was demolished to clear the route for our new, straight, station
I was on that job for a few weeks, the smoothness of the new P/Way through there is wonderful whereas previously the old point work at the south end of the station used to throw you across the cab at 60mph. The new overhead wiring from Bedford to Glendon and Corby is ugly and spoils the nice views somewhat, but that’s progress.Then it was demolished to clear the route for our new, straight, station
I’m still at Luton, nursing cup of tea number five
P5BNij said:
Flying Phil said:
We had a nice Midland Goods shed at the side of Market Harborough Station in 2017
Then it was demolished to clear the route for our new, straight, station
I was on that job for a few weeks, the smoothness of the new P/Way through there is wonderful whereas previously the old point work at the south end of the station used to throw you across the cab at 60mph. The new overhead wiring from Bedford to Glendon and Corby is ugly and spoils the nice views somewhat, but that’s progress.Then it was demolished to clear the route for our new, straight, station
I’m still at Luton, nursing cup of tea number five
Returning to Nine Elms, here is the turntable at work. The people in those flats certainly had a good view....
Found some scans of a trip around Reddish in the eighties, this would be just after they closed the Woodhead . The 76's were out of service as I think were most of the 40's I took.
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anonymous said:
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'Rodders' was a good one, I managed to drive all fifty at Old Oak and some were definitely better than others, even with regular major component swaps which might seem odd. 39 was by the worst and spent weeks at a time on restricted local workings such as the Park Royal Guinness factory tripper or endless empty stock runs in and out of Padd. Somewhere in the loft I've got a box full of cab fittings from 50s, fault lights, switches and the like.D400 in the Pullman Shed at Old Oak in late '72 / early '73 when it was one of the crew training locos, I think 402 was the other one (it took about three years to transfer the entire class from the LMR to the WR). They were usually put on the Bristol jobs first to get as many drivers as possible passed on them....
I'd just prepped these two on the shed shift one day in 1984....
47 125 and 31 127 on the blocks at Padd in June '83, behind the camera was an old wooden shack tucked into a dark corner that had a large kettle on the go round the clock for us to top up our mash cans, the largest rat I've ever seen lived underneath it....
1982....
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